Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.